JSTOR Daily
How Alexander Pushkin Was Inspired By His African Heritage
JSTOR Daily
Alexander Pushkin is known as the quintessential Russian writer. What many readers don't know is that he took particular inspiration from his African great-grandfather, General Abraham Petrovitch Gannibal. According to Anne Lounsbery, a scholar of ...

Baltic Times
Estonian court acquits director of Pushkin Institute
Baltic Times
TALLINN - The Viru county court on Monday acquitted Andrei Krasnoglazov, director of the branch of the Pushkin Institute in the northeast Estonian border city Narva, who stood trial for alleged embezzlement, counterfeiting of documents and use of ...

ERR News
Prosecutor seeks conditional jail term for director of Pushkin Institute
ERR News
The prosecution on Wednesday asked for a conditional jail sentence for Andrei Krasnoglazov, director of the branch of the Pushkin Institute in the northeast Estonian border city of Narva. Krasnoglazov is facing charges for embezzlement, counterfeiting ...and more »

The Bookseller
Debut author Wild-Palmer signs with Pushkin Children's
The Bookseller
The Tunnels Below is a middle-grade novel set in an underground world where the inhabitants have the bodies of humans and the heads of animals. Wild-Palmer, a singer, songwriter and Channel 4 continuity announcer, started writing the story a decade ago ...

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Head of Leningrad region's Pushkin office of internal affairs dismissed
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According to the MIA Main Directorate in St. Petersburg, Igor Dotsenko has himself handed in his resignation. However, half a year before that, one of his deputies had been detained for bribe extortion. In St. Petersburg, Head of the Pushkin office of ...

Asahi Shimbun
Pushkin Museum masterpieces to be shown for 1st time
Asahi Shimbun
Photo/Illutration Claude Monet's “Luncheon on the Grass” (1866) ((c) The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.) Photo/Illustraion. Fifty masterpieces from Moscow's Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts will go on display for the first time in Japan ...

BLOUIN ARTINFO
'The Retrospective' at Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts celebrates Chaim Soutine's work
BLOUIN ARTINFO
“Chaim Soutine. The Retrospective” the ongoing exhibition at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts marks as the first exhibition in Russia to celebrate the works of the Russian-French artist from the expressionist movement. Chaim Soutine (1893-1943 ...and more »

The Guardian (blog)
Pushkin's pride: how the Russian literary giant paid tribute to his African ancestry
The Guardian (blog)
His black great-grandfather was abducted as a child and raised in Peter the Great's court. A new Pushkin translation includes the little-known history of Russia's Shakespeare. People marked the 180th anniversary of Pushkin's death at a monument in St ...

VTB Bank (Armenia) opens new branch – Pushkin
ArmBanks
YEREVAN, December 18. /ARKA/. VTB Bank Armenia has moved its branch from 46 Nalbandyan Street to 3/1 Pushkin Street in Yerevan, the bank's press office reported on Monday. The whole range of the bank's services is available here. Formalization of ...

The Moscow Times
Impressionists Meet Wanderers in Pushkin Museum
The Moscow Times
The hot Moscow exhibition that's got people lining up outside of the Pushkin Museum in the December cold is “Peredvizhniki and Impressionists: On the Way to the 20th Century.” The exhibition explores parallels between two schools of painting and is a ...

Haaretz
When Pushkin Spread the Rumor That Mozart Was Poisoned by His Rival
Haaretz
On December 5, 1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart passed away at the age of 35. He left behind a large number of brilliant and moving works, and a legendabout a genius who came before his time and never received proper recognition for his talent. The usual ...

Renowned Pushkin Museum draws record visitor numbers this year
TASS
MOSCOW, December 12. /TASS/. A total of 1.2 million people have visited Moscow's famous Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts this year, which is the maximum of visitors the museum can accommodate, Director Marina Loshak told reporters. "Museum attendance ...

Sputnik International
Pushkin Institute Opens Online Express Russian Language Course
Sputnik International
The Russian language is gaining popularity as Russia expands its economic ties and attracts more tourists each year. The Pushkin State Russian Language Institute has launched an express Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) course on its Education in ...

The Siver Times
In new York held the first of Pushkin's book festival
The Siver Times
In new York held the first of Pushkin's book festival. Everyone could get acquainted with the works of the great Russian writer by means of a mini-performances. Yesterday, December 2, in new York in a huge public library hosted a festival dedicated to ...

BLOUIN ARTINFO
Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele's Works at The Pushkin Museum
BLOUIN ARTINFO
The State, Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin presents the works of early 20th century Austrian artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. Gustav Klimt, the foremost representative of Viennese Art Nouveau, enjoyed his reputation as an extraordinary ...

The Dominion Post
WVU's Gardner vaults to record at Pushkin meet
The Dominion Post
MORGANTOWN — Redshirt junior Madelin Gardner set a record in the women's pole vault to lead the WVU track and field team at the Marty Pushkin Classic, on Dec. 2, at the Shell Building. Gardner was one of eight winners for the Mountaineers at the ...

The Recorder
Pop-up emporium populates Pushkin
The Recorder
The Pushkin at Main and Federal streets in Greenfield is the site of a holiday “pop-up” market. The market will be open Friday, Dec. 8 from 4 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 9 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Recorder Staff/PAUL FRANZ » Buy this Image. Previous; Next.

Monument to Pushkin unveiled at Budapest University
TASS
VIENNA, November 23. /TASS/. A bronze bust of the 19th century Russian poet and writer, Alexander Pushkin, was unveiled on Wednesday in a gala ceremony at the Institute of Slavonic Studies at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Igor Novosyolov, the ...